The Magic Fish
The Magic Fish By Victor Hinojosa, Coert Voorhees Illustrated by Trung Le Nguyen Published by Random House Children’s Books ISBN-13: 9781984851598 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound| B&N | Worldcat “Warm, loving family and friends are a refreshing alternative to immigrant stories that focus on family problems.” —Kirkus Reviews Description Real life isn’t a fairytale. But Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It’s hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as...
Read More10 Things I Hate about Pinky
10 Things I Hate about Pinky By Sandhya Menon Published by Simon Pulse ISBN-13: 9781534416819 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “In this companion to When Dimple Met Rishi, two frenemies fake-date their way through summer vacation.” —Kirkus Reviews Description Pinky Kumar wears the social justice warrior badge with pride. From raccoon hospitals to persecuted rock stars, no cause is too esoteric for her to champion. But a teeny tiny part of her also really enjoys making her conservative, buttoned-up corporate lawyer parents cringe. Samir Jha...
Read MoreOur Wayward Fate
Our Wayward Fate By Gloria Chao Published by Simon Pulse ISBN-13: 9781534427617 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “When the new student in town happens be Taiwanese just like her, Ali Chu’s world is turned upside down—and not in the ways she might have imagined.” —Kirkus Reviews Description Seventeen-year-old Ali Chu knows that as the only Asian person at her school in middle-of-nowhere Indiana, she must be bland as white toast to survive. This means swapping her congee lunch for PB&Js, ignoring the clueless racism from her...
Read MoreIraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq
IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq By IraqiGirl Published by Haymarket Books ISBN-13: 9781931859738 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound| B&N | Worldcat …IraqiGirl also allows us to witness the determination of one girl not only to survive, but to create, amidst the devastation of war, a future worth living for. Description These are the words of fifteen-year-old Hadiya, blogging from the city of Mosul, Iraq, to let the world know what life is really like as the military occupation of her country unfolds. In many ways, her life is familiar. She worries about...
Read MoreThe Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border
The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border By Juan Pablo Villalobos Published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux ISBN: 9780374305734 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon| IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “…this essential volume is deserving of more than one read.” —Kirkus Reviews Description Every year, thousands of migrant children and teens cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The journey is treacherous and sometimes deadly, but worth the risk for migrants who are escaping gang violence and poverty in their home countries. And for those...
Read MoreAll-American Muslim Girl
All-American Muslim Girl By Nadine Jolie Courtney Published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux ISBN-13: 9780374309527 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “…examines matters of subtle and blatant Islamophobia, privilege and erasure, and questions of faith and identity…” —Publishers Weekly Description Allie Abraham has it all going for her—she’s a straight-A student, with good friends and a close-knit family, and she’s dating popular, sweet Wells Henderson. One problem: Wells’s father is Jack Henderson, America’s most famous conservative...
Read MoreIn the Key of Nira Ghani
In the Key of Nira Ghani By Natasha Deen Published by Running Press Book Publishers ISBN-13: 9780762465477 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “Nira is the only child of a strict, lower middle class Guyanese couple living in America with her loving, wise grandmother.” —School Library Journal Description Nira Ghani has always dreamed of becoming a musician. Her Guyanese parents, however, have big plans for her to become a scientist or doctor. Nira’s grandmother and her best friend, Emily, are the only people who seem to truly understand her...
Read MoreA Match Made in Mehendi
A Match Made in Mehendi By Nandini Bajpai Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN: 9780316522588 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “Themes of bullying, tradition, technology, and love permeate the book.” —School Library Journal Description Fifteen-year-old Simran “Simi” Sangha comes from a long line of Indian vichole — matchmakers — with a rich history for helping parents find good matches for their grown children. When Simi accidentally sets up her cousin and a soon-to-be lawyer, her family is thrilled...
Read MoreBalcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine
Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine By Ibtisam Barakat Published by Square Fish ISBN-13: 9781250144294 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “…a compelling personal history, brimming with humor, wisdom, and empathy.” —Publishers Weekly Description Picking up where Ibtisam Barakat’s first memoir, Tasting the Sky, left off, Balcony on the Moon follows her through her childhood and adolescence in Palestine from 1972-1981 in the aftermath of the Six-Day War. This memoir about pursuing dreams in the face of adversity chronicles...
Read MoreAll the Stars Denied
All the Stars Denied By Guadalupe Garcia McCall Published by Lee & Low Books Inc. ISBN-13: 9781620142813 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “A harrowing account of a lesser known episode in the United States’ unseemly history of discriminatory immigration policies.” —School Library Journal Description In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans. All around town, signs go up...
Read MoreThe Grief Keeper
The Grief Keeper By Alexandra Villasante Published by Penguin Young Readers Group ISBN-13: 9780525514022 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat Villasante builds her novel about undocumented immigrants into a suspenseful story with credible relationships, satisfying character development, and elements of science fiction. —Publishers Weekly Description Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol’s mother as a maid....
Read MoreInk Knows No Borders
Ink Knows No Borders By Alyssa Raymond & Patrice Vecchione Published by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 9781609809072 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “This symphony of poetry is a necessary series of bruises and balms that will comfort those who have endured, uplift those who continue to struggle, and educate others.” —Kirkus Reviews Description This collection of sixty-four poems by poets who come from all over the world shares the experience of first- and second-generation young adult immigrants and refugees. Whether it’s cultural and...
Read MoreWe Are All That’s Left
We Are All That’s Left By Carrie Arcos Published by Penguin Young Readers Group ISBN-13: 9780399175541 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “…depicts the horrors of the 1990s Bosnian conflict in this powerful novel that juxtaposes images of the war against a fictionalized terrorist attack in Rhode Island.” —Publishers Weekly Description Zara and her mother, Nadja, have a strained relationship. Nadja just doesn’t understand Zara’s creative passion for, and self-expression through, photography. And Zara doesn’t know...
Read MoreLet’s Go Swimming on Doomsday
Let’s Go Swimming on Doomsday By Natalie C. Anderson Published by Penguin Young Readers Group ISBN-13: 9780399547614 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “An excellent choice for public and school libraries looking for powerful realistic fiction titles.” —School Library Journal Description When Abdi’s family is kidnapped, he’s forced to do the unthinkable: become a child soldier with the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab. In order to save the lives of those he loves, and earn their freedom, Abdi agrees to be embedded as a spy...
Read MoreThe Astonishing Color of After
The Astonishing Color of After By Emily X. R. Pan Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN: 9780316463997 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “Pan’s emotionally charged debut is a compelling exploration of grief and the insidiousness of depression.” —Publishers Weekly Description Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined...
Read MoreThe Stars at Oktober Bend
The Stars at Oktober Bend By Glenda Millard Published by Candlewick Press ISBN-13: 9780763692728 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “A flawed but beautiful and tragic story of hope.”— Kirkus Reviews Description Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words, but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows that words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chips shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a...
Read MoreSadia
Sadia By Colleen Nelson Published by Dundurn Press ISBN-13: 9781459740297 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “Fifteen-year-old Sadi Ahmadi, a Muslim immigrant from Syria, learns that young voices can still be powerful in Nelson’s story about being loyal to one’s beliefs.” —Publishers Weekly Description Fifteen-year-old Sadia Ahmadi is passionate about one thing: basketball. Her best friend Mariam, on the other hand, wants to get noticed by the popular crowd and has started de-jabbing, removing her hijab, at school every morning. Sadia’s mom...
Read MoreAmerican Panda
American Panda By Gloria Chao Published by Simon Pulse ISBN: 9781481499101 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “Chao’s effervescent debut explores topics and themes that are salient for all teens…perhaps even more so for children of immigrants, who have a foot in two cultures and an ever-present awareness of the sacrifices their parents have made.” —Publishers Weekly Description At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parents’ master plan. Now a freshman at MIT, she is on track to fulfill the...
Read MoreThe Lines We Cross
The Lines We Cross By Randa Abdel-Fattah Published by Scholastic Inc. ISBN-13: 9781338282054 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “A timely and compassionate portrait of the devastating losses of refugees, political conflicts within a family and a nation, and the astounding capacity of young people to identify hate and yet act with empathy and love.” —School Library Journal Description Michael likes to hang out with his friends and play with the latest graphic design software. His parents drag him to rallies held by their anti-immigrant group,...
Read MoreDarius the Great Is Not Okay
Darius the Great Is Not Okay By Adib Khorram Published by Penguin Young Readers Group ISBN-13: 9780525552963 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “…layered with complexities of identity, body image and mental illness that are so rarely articulated in the voice of a teenage boy of color.” —The New York Times Book Review Description Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He’s a Fractional Persian—half, his mom’s side—and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his...
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